Floor covering and method of forming the same



Feb. 23, 1932. BETTlSON 1,846,940

FLOOR COVERING AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME Filed April 27. 1928 I Pug], flaIM ENT Y A M rm ATTORNEYS Patented Feb. 23, 1932 UNITED STATES PERCY a. immson,

PATENT OFFICE OF NEW-ARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOB 1'0 AMERICAN & FELT OOIPANY, OI CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A

CORPORATION OF DELAWARE FLOOR. COVERING AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME Application filed April 27, 1928. Serial No. 278,260.

The invention relates to floor covering and to a method of making the same.

The usual linoleum or cork composition floor covering is relatively hard and unyielding and is generally laid on hard surfaced flooring, suc as wood or cement. The object of this invention is to provide a floor covering in which the linoleum or cork carpet is associated with an under cushion of felt,

preferably a punched felt reinforce with which the feltable fibres are intimately associated, said floor covering being formed by cementing the punch felt to the hard floor and then cementin the linoleum or cork carpet to the unched elt cushion.

The invention-.furt er consists in the several features. hereinafter described and more particularly. defined by claims at the conclusion hereof.

The drawing shows-a perspective view of the floor covering embodying the invention, parts bein shown in section.

In the the numeral 2 designates the hard surfaced under-flooring, here shown as of wood thou h it maybe of cementitious composition, an? 3 the linoleum or cork floor covering, which includes a layer 4 of linoleum mastic, usually ground cork or woodmeal secured together by a suitable cement,

80 such as linoxin or its substitutes, laid upon a fabric base 5. I

The cushoning material 6 consists of a hat 7 of felt-able fibres, referably animal hair, which are unch felted together and to a fabric re' orce. 8, preferably burlap, some of the fibres extending through the meshes of the burlap.

. This cushioning material 6 is first laid over the hard flooring 2 and secured thereto by a suitable adhesive spread upon said flooring 2 or upon one side of said material and then lionleum or cork flobr covering is laid upon the top surface of said cushion layer 6 and is secured thereto by a suitable adhesive spread upon the bottom face of the floor covering or upon the top side of the cushioning material. The cushioning material is preferably laid with the burlap reinforce 8 uppermost.

*0 With flooring made as above described, the

having a burlap disadvantage of the hard, unyielding char,- acter of the under-flooring and. top covering are eliminated by the punch felt cushion inter osed therebetween. I desire it to be understood that this invention is not to .be limited to any particular form or arrangement of parts except insofar as such limitations are included in the claims.

What I claim as my invention is:

1. The combination with a hard surface flooring, of a cushioning layer of feltable fibres having a considerable proportion of the fibres arranged to extend substantially normal to the plane of said layer and interlocking the fibres together and providing protruding fibres cemented to said flooring, and a floor covering of linoleum or the ed to said cushioning la er.

2. .In a floor, the com ination with a hard surfaced base, of a layer of cement on said base, a cushioning layer of feltable fibres and a fibrous reinforce on one side, a considerable tend transversely through said reinforce and normal to the plane of said la er and interlocking the fibres together an to said reinforce with some of the fibres protruding from said reinforce, said cushioning layer havin its plain side in adhesive contact with said cement, a layer of cement on the reinforced side, of said cushioning layer, and a surface of hnoleum or similar composition flooring upon said last-named layer of cement.

.3. In a floor, the combination with a hard surfaced base, of a layer of cement on said base, a layer of needled felt consisting principally of animal hairs interlaced together and to a penetrable fibrous reinforce on one side to dispose a considerable proportion of the fibresnormal to the surfaces of said layer and provide protruding fibres and havin its plain side in adhesive contact with sai cement, a layer of cement on the reinforced side of said fe t, and a surface of linoleum or similar composition flooring upon said lastnamed layer of'cement. V

In testimony whereof, I aflix my signature.

PERCY R. HBETTISON.

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